Top 25 talk

[Darryl Nester]

...

Acknowledgements for the compliment, and the reference to me aside, that has to be the best post that I have read in years.

I want to add my own note of appreciation to Gregory Sager for this trip down memory lane (and the favorable comparison to Ralph Turner).

[Ralph Turner]

How They Fared (Complete)

One loss at the top ...  and then a bunch of losses (32 of them) starting at #19.

As noted earlier, I added Hiram at the end as a "team worth watching."

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	625	Augustana	13-1	LOST at #5 Elmhurst, 75-77; won at North Park, 79-66
#2	596	Whitworth	13-0	def. #25 Whitman, 95-89; won at Pacific, 62-50
#3	538	Hope	12-1	def. Albion, 68-65; won at Olivet, 79-64
#4	530	St. Thomas	10-1	won at Gustavus Adolphus, 71-53; def. T#34 Bethel, 69-66
#5	510	Elmhurst	13-1	def. #1 Augustana, 77-75; won at Millikin, 73-65
#6	505	Benedictine	14-0	def. Dominican, 110-78; def. Wisconsin Lutheran, 81-67
#7	470	John Carroll	13-0	def. Capital, 75-74; won at Muskingum, 97-91
#8	457	Ohio Wesleyan	12-1	won at Wittenberg, 77-70; won at Allegheny, 89-77
#9	411	Amherst	11-1	def. Eastern Connecticut, 68-65; def. Williams, 78-66
#10	339	Marietta	11-2	def. Ohio Northern, 72-71
#11	333	Susquehanna	14-0	won at #21 Scranton, 78-63; def. Merchant Marine, 91-72
#12	329	WPI	12-1	won at Springfield, 69-56; def. #49 MIT, 70-62
#13	317	Christopher Newport	12-1	won at Penn State-Harrisburg, 77-65; def. Wesley, 81-68
#14	315	New York University	10-0	won at Wells, 89-67; def. Brandeis, 69-67
#15	224	UW-Whitewater	11-2	won at UW-Stout, 75-59; def. #19 UW-Stevens Point, 69-63
#16	197	Chicago	10-2	won at #30 Washington U., 70-69
#17	154	Franklin and Marshall	10-2	won at McDaniel, 59-43; def. Swarthmore, 57-54
#18	107	Mount Union	10-3	def. Heidelberg, 104-80; won at Wilmington, 82-79
#19	103	UW-Stevens Point	7-6	LOST at UW-Eau Claire, 59-63; LOST at #15 UW-Whitewater, 63-69
#20	88	Oswego State	8-2	LOST at Oneonta State, 52-90
#21	87	Scranton	11-3	won at Drew, 69-62; LOST to #11 Susquehanna, 63-78; won at Goucher, 78-77
#22	80	Tufts	11-2	won at Mass-Boston, 74-61; def. Bowdoin, 102-69; def. T#36 Colby, 92-65
#23	73	Trine	11-2	LOST at Calvin, 70-74; def. Kalamazoo, 77-59
#24	69	Brooklyn	11-3	won at York (N.Y.), 80-46; LOST to Baruch, 89-97
#25	68	Whitman	11-2	LOST at #2 Whitworth, 89-95; won at Pacific, 91-74

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
T#26	52	Lancaster Bible	10-0	won at Penn College, 109-52; def. Penn State-Abington, 108-60
T#26	52	St. Norbert	10-2	def. Lawrence, 82-62
#28	50	Pacific Lutheran	9-4	LOST at Linfield, 51-53; LOST at George Fox, 74-82
#29	47	Virginia Wesleyan	8-5	won at Shenandoah, 89-78; LOST to T#53 Roanoke, 84-93
#30	39	Washington U.	8-4	LOST to #16 Chicago, 69-70
#31	36	St. John's	10-2	won at Macalester, 81-56; LOST at Concordia-Moorhead, 65-83
T#32	30	Albertus Magnus	8-2	won at Anna Maria, 108-93; LOST to Lasell, 81-94; won at St. Joseph's (Maine), 56-52
T#32	30	Trinity (Conn.)	9-4	LOST at Plattsburgh State, 73-81; def. Elms, 92-63; def. Williams, 76-75
T#34	28	Bethel	9-2	won at St. Olaf, 76-66; LOST at #4 St. Thomas, 66-69
T#34	28	East Texas Baptist	9-4	LOST at Howard Payne, 65-67; won at Sul Ross State, 67-62
T#36	21	Colby	10-3	won at Pine Manor, 115-97; LOST at Bates, 69-73; LOST at #22 Tufts, 65-92
T#36	21	North Central (Ill.)	10-4	def. Millikin, 83-54; won at Wheaton (Ill.), 71-62
#38	20	Wesleyan	12-2	won at Rhode Island College, 79-77; LOST to Middlebury, 76-86; def. Hamilton, 82-76
T#39	15	William Paterson	7-6	LOST at Kean, 73-78; LOST to Rutgers-Newark, 65-78
T#39	15	Texas Lutheran	11-3	def. University of Dallas, 73-72; def. Austin, 96-93
#41	14	Delaware Valley	11-2	IDLE
#42	11	Northwestern (Minn.)	12-2	won at Bethany Lutheran, 84-66; won at Martin Luther, 97-71
T#43	10	Stockton	9-5	LOST to New Jersey City, 69-74; LOST at Ramapo, 64-70
T#43	10	Eastern Nazarene	9-4	LOST to Salve Regina, 74-83; LOST at Wentworth, 58-80; LOST to Nichols, 67-79
T#45	9	Alma	9-4	won at Kalamazoo, 86-85; def. Adrian, 85-66
T#45	9	Salisbury	10-3	def. York (Pa.), 75-56; won at Mary Washington, 81-70
T#47	8	Johnson and Wales	12-1	def. St. Joseph's (Maine), 93-51; def. Rivier, 91-53; def. Norwich, 84-48
T#47	8	Southern Vermont	9-3	LOST at Middlebury, 74-92; def. Mitchell, 103-87
#49	7	MIT	9-3	def. Clark, 56-51; LOST at #12 WPI, 62-70
T#50	6	Babson	8-4	def. Emerson, 80-63; def. Springfield, 91-76
T#50	6	Buffalo State	9-3	won at Brockport State, 81-73; won at Potsdam State, 84-78; LOST at Plattsburgh State, 91-98
#52	5	Juniata	11-3	def. Goucher, 69-62; won at Elizabethtown, 60-46; LOST at Eastern, 68-73
T#53	3	Carroll	11-1	def. Ripon, 72-66; won at Cornell, 59-55
T#53	3	Centre	10-4	def. Rhodes, 56-33; def. Hendrix, 77-74
T#53	3	Roanoke	12-1	won at Washington and Lee, 105-96; won at #29 Virginia Wesleyan, 93-84
T#56	2	Chapman	8-2	def. Pomona-Pitzer, 73-62
T#56	2	Geneseo	7-3	LOST to Fredonia State, 86-89; LOST to Oneonta State, 65-76; def. New Paltz State, 71-67
---	---	Hiram	11-2	def. DePauw, 91-60; won at Wittenberg, 72-68

Time to begin the NYU over/under for the number of wins this season for the Violets.  I say they go 20-5.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

If they win 8 conference games... I would be surprised.

[Greek Tragedy]

If they win 8 conference games... I would be surprised.

I'll take the over on that.

[Mr. Ypsi]

If they win 8 conference games... I would be surprised.

I'll take the over on that.

I'll take the under.  NYU does this year-after-year.  Their non-con schedule is so filled with cupcakes, I'm surprised the athletic department doesn't all have diabetes.

[WUPHF]

Yeah, Massey has their strength of schedule as 382 and they still have 1-13 Hunter on the schedule. 

I'll go with surprised if NYU wins 8 conference games.

[smedindy]

Well, who got the recogpnition when they played each lother? How many lothers were there, anyway?

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Those wondering where our NJAC "friend" went to... he found another way to harass me: https://twitter.com/jimw4lefts

[Ralph Turner]

Those wondering where our NJAC "friend" went to... he found another way to harass me: https://twitter.com/jimw4lefts

      

[David Collinge]

Those are some seriopus accusations he's making.

[Mr. Ypsi]

That guy is SERIOPUSLY disturbed.

[sac]

Things all went down hill when Pat Coleman and his millions took over the league.

[pg04]

Looks like he's spelling better there at least. Ramblings of a blithering idiot.

[David Collinge]

Looks like he's spelling better there at least. Ramblings of a blithering idiot.

RACIST!

[Darryl Nester]

In his excellent summary of the story of "TGHIJGSTO," Gregory Sager mentioned:

...
That was a great moment in d3boards.com history, right up there with the best of the D3 Championship Belt^TM thread and the time that the board regulars decided to build a quote pyramid in one of the multi-regional rooms.

In case anyone wants to revisit the quote pyramid, you can see it HERE. (In fact, it was in this multi-regional room. Finding it was much easier than I thought it might be, once I recalled that at some point someone had described it as a "ziggurat." It turns out that someone was none other than Gregory Sager.)

At least we can take comfort in the fact that the quote pyramid won't re-surface on social media to accuse us of racism.